About

My primary research focus lies in exploring semantic and referential meaning in speech, particularly within narrative structures and their temporal organization. I specialize in studying these aspects in clinical populations affected by schizophrenia spectrum and related psychotic disorders, with the aim of understanding how different linguistic mechanisms operate in these conditions in comparison with neurotypical populations. My work combines Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, computational linguistics, and statistical modeling, primarily using Python.

More broadly, I am interested in the relationship between language, cognition, and representation learning, especially how meaning emerges, is organized, and evolves dynamically across time. My research explores how semantic and referential structures can be modeled computationally through embeddings, graph-based approaches, and temporal analyses, as well as how these linguistic dynamics relate to broader questions about human information processing and artificial intelligence. I am particularly interested in the interface between linguistic structure, cognitive organization, and AI systems, including the possibility of using language as a window into underlying cognitive and neural dynamics.

I was born in Valparaíso and studied Industrial Engineering (BA) and Economics (MA) at the University of Chile, graduating in 2013. After that, I worked for several years as a Research Analyst doing economic and data analysis. In 2018, I moved to Barcelona to pursue a Master's degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. I completed my PhD under the supervision of Professor Wolfram Hinzen, focusing on referential and semantic meaning as markers of clinical symptoms in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders (SSD). I am currently continuing this line of work as a postdoctoral researcher in computational psychiatry, investigating speech, cognition, and meaning using computational and interdisciplinary approaches.

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I'm passionate about learning new languages (currently studying Russian, Georgian and Japanese). In my free time, I read, write poetry and take long walks or hike. I also love experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.

I am also interested in meditation and the cultivation of attention, how focus is trained and sustained through daily practice. To make that process more concrete, I keep a worklog as a tracker for my focused work, priorities, and ongoing projects.